Fredrick Johnson

Professor

Education

M.F.A., School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

B.S., Penn State University

Courses Taught

Introduction to Cinema

Introduction to Screenwriting

History of International Cinema

Production I, II and IV

Narrative Structure of Cinema

Intermediate Screenwriting

Advanced Producing

Background

Fredrick Johnson has more than 15 years of media production experience, principally in Los Angeles, where his work included productions for MTV, VH1, Ford Motor Company, Coca-Cola, Warner Bros., and Universal Studios Theme Parks. As a writer and director, his work has won many awards and screened at festivals around the world, including the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, the Deauville Festival of American Film, the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, CineAsia Hong Kong, ShoWest Las Vegas, the One World Human Rights Film Festival (Prague, Czech Republic) and the Pan-African Film Festival (Los Angeles).

Johnson has more than 15 years of experience in media production education, previously at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Southern California, where he also earned an M.F.A. at the School of Cinematic Arts.